Improvement in binding-folders



J. B. NICHOLS.

Sewing Machine Attachment.

No. 11,615. Patented Aug. 29, 1854.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IMPROVEMENT m BINDING-FOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1 L615, dated August 29, 1854.

To uZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN B. NIcHoLs, of Lynn, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and use ful mechanism for or means of applying bindings to cloth, leather, or any other substance the edge of which is to be covered by a binding; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, exact, and clear description of the construction and operation of the same, which description should be taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which-- Eigure l is a top view of my binding guide and folder, showing its operation and manner of applying and folding the binding. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of it, representing it as attached to the feeding and sewing elements of a sewing-machine; and Figs. 3 and 4 are elevations of each end of it.

This instrument is designed more particularly to be used in connection with sewingmachines, and to fold and apply the binding to the edge of the material to be bound, and to sew it upon the same by a continuous operation, and may be used with any of the usual forms of sewing-machines or in connection with any other mode of fastening the binding upon the material that may be desired, and may thus be used to apply bindings or trimmings to the edges of paper boxes or other similar uses where thetrimmings are fastened by paste, glue, or other adhesive substance.

A Bin the drawings are two bars, made of sheet metal or any other proper material, connected together, as shown, at one end, and having the other ends bent inward in a hook form, as shown in the drawings. One of these guides, A, works above and the other, B, works below the material O,to which the binding D is to be applied. The binding is folded together, and either edge in its folded state is embraced by the guide bars A and B, respectively, as is shown in section in Fig. 2. The material is placed between the guide-bars A and B, by which the binding is applied equally upon either side of the same. The blade of he upper guide-bar, A, is elastic, so that it accommodates itself to any variation in the thickness of the material and hold it and the binding firmly in position while they are sewed together by the machine.

E is a movable slide against which the edge of the material rests, and this slide is made adjustable to accommodate bindings of different widths. It is attached to the shank d, which is held by the clamping-screw e in a perfectly obvious manner. F represents the feeding wheel or element of the sewing-machine, and G the position of the needle or sewing element. H H are screw-holes by which the binding-guide is fastened to the table of the machine.

material is drawn along between the guide-bars the binding is also drawn along and folded together by them and laid evenly upon either side thereof without any assistance of the operator or attendant.

The form and mode of constructing the parts may evidently be much modified and still embrace the principle of the invention.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The binding-folder made to guide and fold, substantially as described, whether used in connection with asewing-machine or with any other mode of fastening the binding after it is folded and applied.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my.

signature this 14th day of July, A. D. 1854.

JOHN B. NICHOLS.

Witnesses: I

B. H. EDDY,

-F. P. HALE, Jr. 

